Why Easter Was Never Anything But A Christian Holiday (Baylor University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Mar 2016
However, there are people who insist the Easter holiday was not created to celebrate Christ's sacrifice but rather that it has roots in ancient pagan tradition, specifically Babylonian ... 'As such, there is no way that it is derived from a Nordic or Germanic pagan festival that, if it historically existed, postdates the Christian celebration ... Therefore, we are unable to confirm the existence of such a pagan deity....

Sacred Trees, Christmas Trees and New Year Trees:  a Vision for the Future

Edit CounterPunch 06 Jan 2016
Christian missionaries targeted sacred groves and sacred trees during the Christianization of the Germanic peoples. According to the 8th century Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Saint Boniface and his retinue cut down Oak (a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans) earlier the same century and then used the wood to build a church....

ISIS's Backwards 'Caliphate' Evokes Crusaders Over Caliphs

Edit Huffington Post 29 Dec 2015
Rather than cherishing their pre-Christian inheritance, many feudal lords branded classical philosophy, especially "pagan" texts, heresy ... Even the philosophy-minded emperor Charlemagne countered heresies like Germanic paganism with a sword instead of a pen ... Like the Crusaders during the Rhineland massacres (where zealots massacred German Jews), ISIS destroys religious minorities instead of, like Abbasid caliphs, protecting them ... ....

The Dark Companion of Saint Nick (16 photos)

Edit The Atlantic 30 Nov 2015
In keeping with pre-Germanic Pagan traditions, men dressed as these demons have been frightening children on Krampusnacht for centuries, chasing them and hitting ......

Krampus is coming to town

Edit The Examiner 21 Nov 2015
This approaching holiday season, commonly characterized by the phrase “good will towards men” and associated with the warm feeling of giving and receiving wrapped gifts, Universal and Legendary pictures will partner up to add a spark of hellfire to roast chestnuts to ... That naturally opens up the question, who or what is Krampus? ... Popular belief has Krampus pegged as Germanic paganism, stretching back far enough to predate Christianity....

Henge benefits: why Bill Bryson is wrong about Avebury

Edit The Guardian 20 Oct 2015
With his complaints about the cash, the parking and the labyrinthine layout, Bryson is opening the way for the Disneyfication of Avebury’s electric mysteries ... That is quite an achievement, since the Avebury stone circle has no admission charge ... Avebury is a mystical wonderland. Bryson seems to have missed the point ... Twitter ... It is genuinely spooky ... Avebury is perfect ... A party of German pagans were seated nearby, humming and chanting ... ....

Aryans in Arcadia

Edit Minds 21 Jul 2015
He took Blavatsky’s system of root races and added his own brand of Germanic pagan nationalism, positing that the fifth sub root of the Aryan race, the Germanic peoples, were the current supreme race ... Nazi regime, he published a magazine called Ostara, a Nationalist and Aryan supremacist publication named for the Germanic pagan goddess of spring....

A message from Mildura Rural City Council’s CEO - 23/12/2014 (Mildura Rural City Council)

Edit noodls 22 Dec 2014
(Source. Mildura Rural City Council). With Christmas fast approaching my family and I would like to share our best wishes to all of you, your families and friends for a special, safe and joyous Christmas period. The festive season sees the end of one year and anticipates the commencement of a new ... Yule is the winter solstice celebration of the Scandinavian Norse mythology and Germanic pagans ... Striking the gong drives these sins away....

Winter Solstice: Ways To Celebrate The Longest Night Of The Year

Edit The Inquisitr 21 Dec 2014
While the solstice was traditionally celebrated only by pagans, there are ways everyone can celebrate, no matter which religion they observe ...Pagans aren’t alone in commemorating the winter solstice in modern times.” ... Light a Yule log. Believed to have its origins in Germanic paganism, the lighting of the Yule log is a traditional winter solstice practice that’s now popular throughout Europe ... ....

Selecting the perfect Yule-tree

Edit Longview News Journal 02 Dec 2014
Well me being myself, I just had to take some time to ponder on the question at hand ... This can be seen particularly through the story of Saint Boniface and the conversion of the German pagans. In which Saint Boniface cuts down an oak tree the German pagan worshipped, and replaced it with an evergreen tree, telling them about how its triangular shape reminds humanity of the Holy Trinity and how it points to heaven ... ....

The origins of Easter and the Ishtar meme

Edit The Examiner 17 Apr 2014
While it is true that Easter’s name and symbolism are derived from Pagan sources the connection to Babylonian mythology is entirely a work of fiction ... The symbolism of Easter, like the name, has its roots in Germanic paganism ... While some of the popular symbols of Easter, and its English name have roots in Germanic Paganism the supposed connection to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar is pure fiction....

The Wiccan Way

Edit Houston Chronicle 16 Dec 2013
Since this is my blog, the question is, how many are Pagan? Let’s find out, eh? ... In fact, the Christmas tree was banded in Every Christian denomination and in the Bible (Jeremiah 10.1-5) because of its Pagan roots until Queen Victoria changed it to allow herself to have one after returning from a trip in Germany ... In later years, the Germanic Pagans created Ornaments to adorn the tree ... Snowflakes were-are used as a Pagan symbols of love....

Yes, Megyn Kelly, Santa Can Be Black (and Jesus, Too)

Edit The Daily Beast 12 Dec 2013
By Jamelle BouieDecember 12th 20131.05 pm. followMore Stories by Jamelle Bouie. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly thinks the idea of a racially inclusive Santa Claus is utterly ridiculous. She’s wrong. And she’s wrong about Jesus being white, too ... Apartment dwellers might opt for an artificial tree instead of the real thing ... Yes, as a figure, “Santa Claus” has his roots in early Christian Europe, Dutch folklore, and Germanic paganism ... What? ... ....
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